Writing Workshop 2014

Dear All,

I wish to welcome you all back to class. 

As a follow-up from last year's course, I will take over Prof Aicega's Writing Workshop as from Friday, February 28^th from 12 to 2 pm. The workshop will run for 4 consecutive weekly sessions on a two-hour basis.

We have been assigned to Room 205 at Block B in the new premises. As usual, students taking either their 2nd makeups or their finals are welcome.

Hope to see you on Friday,

With best wishes,

Ana Moldero

Marks for 2nd Makeup Test (Art 14°) - December date

Part 1: Essay

Andreani, María Eugenia            2
Cadenas, Eliana                          2
Pasquadibilisceglie, Anabella       2
Rabar, Denise                             2
Rossi, Pablo                                2

Part 2: Theory

Pezzani, Maria José                     4

Theory Makeup

Marks for Theory Makeup

Please follow the link: http://es.scribd.com/doc/190515107/Midterm-Makeup-Marks-2013-Art-14

Prof. Moldero will be showing the tests in Sala de Profesores tomorrow Tuesday 10th from 12.30 to 1pm

December 2nd Final - essays

Yebra, Paula              5

Fernandez, Mara      7

Riboli, Lucia                6

Filippetti, Lucas          4

Bergna, Ma Belen      5

Pettigrosso, Marina  5

Cassera, Ines              8

Montes, Isabel           4

Prio,  Nieves                7

Barragan, Valeria       2

Art. 14 y recuperatorio del proyecto

Los alumnos que deban rendir el Art. 14° deberán presentarse en el 2do llamado de diciembre:

16/12 para el ensayo y 19/12 para la teoría.

Los alumnos que tengan que recuperar el oral (proyecto) pueden hacerlo en cualquiera de los dos llamados de diciembre ya sea jueves 5/12 o jueves 19/12 a las 10 hs. De no presentarse se dará por desaprobada esa instancia. Deberán preparar un tema central del proyecto que presentaron en clase demostrando un nivel adecuado de rendimiento oral. 

Mid term test

Due to medical reasons, Prof. Moldero

 won't be teaching her class on Monday. 
All work assigned for that class will be supervised in the tutorials.

Midterm and Makeup essay 2013

Please bring Fairclough to class tomorrow and the remaining texts assigned for your midterm the following class. We'll be working with study guides to dispel your doubts.

Julia

To All Students

Dear All

It has recently come to my notice that some students have voiced a complaint before SAE over the reading list prescribed for the coming Midterm Test Part on applied theory. To my surprise, they claimed that some topics had not been covered in the tutorials and that there were too many readings to do. While I can understand that exams are often a source of anxiety for everyone, there are one or two things I feel I need to bring to your attention at this point.

After reviewing class reports on the activities you have done with your tutors and discussing the issue with them, we have been able to ascertain that the topics in the tutorials were properly dealt with. Students were provided with study guides specially designed to highlight the main issues and facilitate home reading, and tutors covered the texts adequately in class, including awareness-raising, discussion, analysis and application activities.

As for the concerns about the length of the reading list, we must consider that it covers at least six months’ work. The texts were assigned for home reading and treated one at a time in the course of the lessons, as those of you who have followed the coursework regularly will confirm. It is no less true, though, that in many cases there has been poor compliance with the reading assignments according to your assistant teachers’ reports and, of course, those students who fall behind with their work or fail to study conscientiously will find considerable difficulty tackling several readings at the last minute.

And then again, still allowing that there are, in fact, a large number of texts to read for the midterm, Language IV is no subject to be sitting through and just managing a few deadlines. Upgrading one´s language level and acquiring a professional discourse management is a complex matter that requires large exposure, steady dedication and commitment. I must also remind you that as students towards the end of our university course, we are expected to read extensively, unless we are prepared to admit that students from the English course are less apt than those from other degree courses in our school and others, where the reading load for their midterms is just as heavy, if not heavier, than in our case.

Having said this, we are willing to take a flexible approach and we have decided to postpone the date of the Midterm Test Part 2 to Friday October 18th so as to allow time for revision of the key points and to give everyone the opportunity to check their doubts both at lectures and tutorials. In order to dispel your concerns, I would like you to know that the readings are grouped around three central issues as follows, Discourse Genres, Discourse and the News and Discourse, Ideology and Power, and that the tasks and /or questions on the test will be modelled after the tasks covered in the Tutorials and questions in the Study Guides.

With best wishes,

Prof. Ana Moldero

To All Students -Class 2013

Updated Reading List for Midterm Part 2: Theory

(Friday, October 18th, 2013)

The contents of the test will address three central issues as follows:

Discourse Genres

·       Eggins and Martin, “Genres and Registers of Discourse”

·       Swales, “The concept of Genre” (Chapter 1)

·       Swales, “Genres, Schemata and Acquisition” (Chapter 5)

·       Bhatia “Perspectives on Written Discourse” (Chapter 1)

·       Bhatia “Generic Integrity” (Chapter 5)

·       Gill and Whedbee, “Rhetoric”

Discourse and the News

·       Hartley, Understanding News, “News as communication” (Chapter 1)

·       Hartley, Understanding News, “News and society” (Chapter 3)

·       Hartley, Understanding News, “Selection and construction” (Chapter 5)

·       van Dijk, “The study of news” (Chapter 1)

·       van Dijk, “The structure of news” (Chapter 2)

·       Bell, “The Discourse Structure of News Stories” (Chapter 3)

Discourse, ideology and power

·       van Dijk, “Opinions and Ideologies in the Press” (Chapter 2)

·       Fairclough, Language and Power, “Discourse and power” (Chapter 3)

·       Fairclough, Language and Power “Discourse, common sense and ideology” (Chapter 4)

FINAL EXAM: MONDAY SEPTEMBER 23^RD

^{(3 still pending)}

1. Collar, Micaela           8
2. Elsener, Laura             7
3. Diaz, Estrella               7
4. Sanchez, Flavio            7
5. Ferrero, Sabrina           5
6. Garcia, Diego M.           5
7. Command, Evangelina 5
8. De Antueno, Rocio       5
9. Del Rio, Ma Clara         5
10. Santana M., Agustina   5
11. Spinoza, Daniela           4
12. Filippetti, Lucas             4
13. Garcia Cortazar             4

FAILED:

1. Spegazzini, Jorgelina
2. Massa, Ana Maria
3. Bravo, Ailin
4. Kenny, Elizabeth
5. Logroño, Melisa

3rd Mock Essay - Class assignment - August 29th, 2013

MARKS FOR MOCK ESSAY #3 - CLASS ASSIGNMENT AUGUST 29TH, 2013

Please click on the link to see the marks:

Mock Essay #3

For next class please read Fairclough, Language and Power, "Discourse as Social Practice" (chapter 2), NOT chapter 1 as I said in class. Sorry!

Julia

Writing workshop:

Ana will be teaching the workshop on September 17th and 18th. Please, bring a writing piece of your own.

Tutorials on Mondays and Fridays 6-8pm are over.
I'll see you on Thursdays 12-2 and 2-4 in room 206 as from next week.

Julia

PROJECTS 2013

Click here to see the PROJECTS

Mid-term essays

Click here to see your midterm essay marks

PROJECT TITLES

Click on the link for the list of titles for this year.

http://es.scribd.com/doc/162296730/Lengua-IV-Project-Titles-2013

Remember to send three options for the title, the names of the members of your group and the date you want to present your project to Dolores Aicega by email (doloresaicega@gmail.com).

DATES OF INTEREST

Make-up - Essay: September 20th

Mid-Term - Theory: October 10th

Make-up - Theory: November 7th

Oral presentations - Projects: October 17th, 18th, 24th, 25th and 31st

Artículo 14 - Essay: December 2nd

Artículo 14 - Theory: December 5th